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Is it worthwhile to try to engage spammers?
I used to have an in-your-face attitude toward people who posted spam, often adding mocking comments in their own broken-English style of writing (e.g. "high qality SPAM, download now, click here flag ...
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How to deal with spam user posting ad in their profile page [duplicate]
At our Stack Exchange site we have some users created recently that have no activity, simply a name and profile which contains an add for some car insurance quotes. How can we deal with users like ...
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Should I do anything about self-deleted spam?
I just came across this post:
It's spam (It's a vague statement related to the question, but it's not an answer, and the link points to a commercial sales page). It was posted and instantly self-...
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User littering old questions with link to website [duplicate]
User jaimeiniesta has been posting links to his website on practically anything related to w3c-validation. Some of them aren't even answering the question (ie How to setup W3C Unicorn validator for ...
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Automatically destroy unregistered users when their only post gets the red flag treatment
Unregistered (operative word #1) users with only one post (operative word #2) that got deleted by Community (operative word #3) after spam or offensive flags should be deleted/destroyed automatically....
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Does anything happen to users who do nothing?
I was curious as to whether anything would happen to this user (perhaps not right away, but down the track):
https://stackoverflow.com/users/918511/dnlcllns
They've signed up and done nothing other ...
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Flagging Profiles for spammy content?
I've seen plenty of posts about flagging spammy questions, but now it seems to be mutating to profile spam. Not that much of a problem, but there don't seem to be any moderation tools for this on the ...
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How can I report a specific bad user?
Every once in a while we get a question about how to report a bad user to the admins. Sometimes it's a spammer, sometimes it's a troll, sometimes it's just someone who had a momentary blip in the "...
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"Yes." posts: worm/virus or spam?
I'm seeing more than one post like this:
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Are these hijacked users or something?
Clarification: I know it's ascii art, but I ...
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My thread got commandeered, and "subquestions"
Hey -- I've had great success with my questions on StackOverflow, and a couple days ago, I made a good first question on ServerFault here:
Buying an old laser printer -- what will need to be replaced?
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Simple way to report spammy users?
I've noticed a handful of obviously spammy users (the most recent being https://stackoverflow.com/users/246855/best-penis-products) - there's no way to report the user, only their content.
Are there ...
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